Berkshire Programme Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Programme Manager role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Programme Manager in their job title over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Programme Manager
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Letchworth Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	97
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	20	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.064 %
As % of the category below	0.664 %	1.311 %
Daily rates quoted	13	12
Average minimum daily rate	£444	£521
Average daily rate	£464	£560
% change on same period last year	-17.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£484	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£550	£524
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.50
Average hourly rate	-	£33.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.04	£42.95
% change on same period last year	+0.20 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	3010	4349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.861 %	4.886 %
Daily rates quoted	736	1112
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£335
Average daily rate	£364	£355
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	282	291
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.76	£28.19
Average hourly rate	£25.62	£29.32
% change on same period last year	-12.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.48	£30.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-6.32 %
Programme Manager South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Programme Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Manager across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Manager across the Berkshire region.

Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Programme Manager across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Programme Manager across the Berkshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Manager within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Slough	-	5	£523	-
1	Reading	-6	5	£395	-27.07 %
2	Newbury	+15	2	-	-
3	Maidenhead	+9	1	-	-

Programme Manager South East

Programme Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Programme Manager also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Programme Manager.

1 23 (40.35 %) Telecoms 2 18 (31.58 %) Project Management 3 15 (26.32 %) PRINCE2 4 10 (17.54 %) Programme Management 4 10 (17.54 %) Marketing 5 9 (15.79 %) Finance 6 8 (14.04 %) 3G 7 7 (12.28 %) Broadband 8 5 (8.772 %) PRINCE 9 4 (7.018 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (7.018 %) Change Management 9 4 (7.018 %) Stakeholder Management 10 3 (5.263 %) Migration 10 3 (5.263 %) Banking 10 3 (5.263 %) NPfIT

10 3 (5.263 %) Datawarehouse 10 3 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 3 (5.263 %) Business Intelligence 10 3 (5.263 %) B2B 10 3 (5.263 %) NHS 10 3 (5.263 %) CA Clarity 10 3 (5.263 %) Supplier Management 11 2 (3.509 %) Pensions 11 2 (3.509 %) IT Governance 11 2 (3.509 %) Active Directory 11 2 (3.509 %) ERP 11 2 (3.509 %) SAP 11 2 (3.509 %) ITIL 11 2 (3.509 %) Niku 11 2 (3.509 %) Billing

Programme Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Programme Manager also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Programme Manager. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 3 (5.263 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (1.754 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 8 (14.04 %) 3G 2 7 (12.28 %) Broadband 3 2 (3.509 %) TETRA 4 1 (1.754 %) DWDM 4 1 (1.754 %) DSL 4 1 (1.754 %) LAN 4 1 (1.754 %) SDH 4 1 (1.754 %) WAN 4 1 (1.754 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.263 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 1 (1.754 %) WinRunner 1 1 (1.754 %) TestDirector 1 1 (1.754 %) LoadRunner 1 1 (1.754 %) Synon
General 1 23 (40.35 %) Telecoms 2 10 (17.54 %) Marketing 3 9 (15.79 %) Finance 4 3 (5.263 %) Banking 5 2 (3.509 %) Billing 5 2 (3.509 %) Pensions 5 2 (3.509 %) Government 5 2 (3.509 %) Health 5 2 (3.509 %) Legal 6 1 (1.754 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.263 %) NHS 1 3 (5.263 %) NPfIT 2 1 (1.754 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 1 (1.754 %) Unix 1 1 (1.754 %) Windows 1 1 (1.754 %) AIX 1 1 (1.754 %) HPUX 1 1 (1.754 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (31.58 %) Project Management 2 15 (26.32 %) PRINCE2 3 10 (17.54 %) Programme Management 4 5 (8.772 %) PRINCE 5 4 (7.018 %) Service Delivery 5 4 (7.018 %) Change Management 5 4 (7.018 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (5.263 %) Migration 6 3 (5.263 %) Business Intelligence 6 3 (5.263 %) B2B 6 3 (5.263 %) Supplier Management 7 2 (3.509 %) IT Governance 7 2 (3.509 %) Risk Management 7 2 (3.509 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.509 %) ERP 8 1 (1.754 %) RUP 8 1 (1.754 %) Requirements Analysis 8 1 (1.754 %) Business Development
Qualifications 1 3 (5.263 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.754 %) PMP 2 1 (1.754 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (1.754 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.754 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.754 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.754 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (3.509 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (3.509 %) SAP 1 2 (3.509 %) Niku 2 1 (1.754 %) Capita 2 1 (1.754 %) Cisco 2 1 (1.754 %) IBM 2 1 (1.754 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.754 %) Cognizant